Gaff-hook.



No; 827,246; PATENTED JULY'3'1, 1906.

R. G. LIVINGSTON. G APF HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED PIS B. II. 1905.-

Inventor I g I rut NORRIS Firm 00., WAsHmuwn, D. c.

UNITED, STATES PATENT orrron.

REASON o. LIVINGSTON, OF SPRING VALLEY, MINNESOTA.

' GAFF-HOOK.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, REASON O. LIVING- sToN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spring Valley, in the county of Fillmore and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Gaff-Hook, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to implements emloycd by fishermen for assisting in caring or the fish which they capture, and has for its object to combine in one handle the various tools thus emplo .ed in position to be independently projecte from the handle when required and foldable therein when not re;- quired.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better'understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as

hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which cor-' responding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form-of embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation,

. in the shape, proportions, and general assemit being understood that the invention is not necessarlly limited thereto, as varlous changes blage of the parts may beresorted to without departing from the rinciple of the invention or sacrificing any 0 its advantages.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved implement. ,Fig. 2 is, a side view with one side member of the handle portion detached.

The improved device comprises a handle portion formed'of spaced sides 10 11 and one or more intermediate plates 21 and with a spacer member 12 between the sides and the intermediate plate, the spacer members se Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fil d February 11, 1905. Serial No. 245.270.

Patented Ju1y31, 1906.

18, and likewise supported by the same pivot member 15 opposite the unsupported end of another of the spacer members 12 is a cutting I blade 2-0.

The bar 16, with its barbed hooks 17 18 and the blade 20, are independently foldable into the handle or extensible therefrom, as required, the resiliency of the free and unsuported ends of the members 12- locking them 0th in closed and open position. To theside plate 10 a flexible stra 1.9 for inclosin the fingers of. the hand whic grasps the impIement is attached by means of rigid loops 19, which may be staples with their extremities inserted and riveted through the,

plate 10. i

It will thus be noted that a convenient and useful implement is produced which may be employed'by fishermen in landing the fish by using the hooked member 16 and then blade 20, and when not in use the members 1 6 and 20 may be folded into the handle mem- .ber and carried in the pocket or other recep- 'tacle.

The implement may beof any required size i or of any fanciful design or of any required material. c

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is The gaff comprising a wedge-shaped handle having two of its surfaces substantially straight and uninterrupted and tapered radually from one end to the other, the arge and small ends of the handle adapted to be gripped by the index and little fingers respectively, of a hand, a barbed hook pivoted.

within the small end of the handle and having a tapered arm or shank the faces of which substantially aline with the faces of the handle, loops upon one of the tapered surfaces ofthe handle, and a retaining-strap secured at its ends to the loops.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence-of two witnesses.

REASON OLIVINGSTON. Witnesses: I

R. J ."PARKER, NELLIE TAIT.

7o caring for the captured fish with the cutting- 

